While flipping through my TiVo'd cooking shows last night, I was horrified to see Rachel Ray -- once again -- agressively pushing junk food, confusing people about what's healthy and generally making the world a worse place. Why have we made a celebrety out of a cooking show host who makes "food" with dough in a can? She tells how easy it is to make pepporini pizza twists and actually suggests that it's a fun and good meal to prepare with your kids. We need a cooking show to tell us that junk food is good?

Then she introduced a guest who shared time-saving tips including the gem that disposable dishware helps you not only save time, but is good for the environment because it saves water and the plates can be recycled. Seriously, are we being punk'd? Disposable dishes are now good for the environment? Does she not know that it requires petroleum to make, package and distribute plastic dishes and that if every household in America followed her advice we would only accelerate global warming?

Because of her enormous popularity, Ray's constant dispensation of such ignorant drivel -- actively preaching the gospel of disease-causing junk food and promoting the most vile, consumer-culture practices as "good for the environment" is beyond irresponsible. Here is one bloggers' view of Rachel Ray and other Food Network Celebrities.